WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Genome Project, Khanith, Wgst
14 Dec 2017
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What is to be a male/female? ( area of study) Overview of the relationship between concepts of sex and conceptions of gender. Anatomy is destiny: essentialism: views that gender is a fixed biological or physiological trait that does not vary among individuals or over time. It has also been used to argue that other capacity and traits inborn and immutable. The two-sex order is universal a fact of nature. Nature (gender is a derived from nature (sex) Determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human dna. Emphasizes individuals components rather than developmental systems. Higherlights a singular event rather than dynamic process. The switch: savanna and hamadryads baboons the garbage dump forest troop. Once we start to explore the entanglement of nature and culture in relation to the body, it becomes harder and harder to determine where one ends and the other begins. Prioritize guidelines for relationships of care over rules that placing people.
